Wakefield Broker Earns Distinguished Service Award

BOSTON, July 18, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eileen Hamblin, of Melrose, a broker with RE/MAX Leading Edge in Wakefield, was recently presented with the Andrew F. Hickey Distinguished Service Award at the Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® (GBAR) Annual Awards Breakfast held on June 23 at the Granite Links Golf Club in Quincy.

Established in 2006, the Andrew F. Hickey Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to one local REALTOR® for his or her lengthy and dedicated service to GBAR and the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB).  Recipients must hold membership in GBAR for a minimum of 15 years and are recognized as prominent and effective leaders within the REALTOR® association, real estate industry and their local community.

Hamblin, a REALTOR® since 1982 and past president of the former Eastern Middlesex Association of REALTORS®, has served on over two dozen local and state committees within the association, chairing six of them. In the late 1990s, as chair of the state association's professional development committee, she helped champion REALTOR® efforts to advocate for passage of legislation mandating continuing education requirements for all real estate licensees in Massachusetts. She also served as a representative for the real estate industry and primary voice for the REALTOR® community on a special, multi-community task force which offered critical feedback that led to the defeat of a state transportation study of the I-93/I-95 interchange that would have resulted in the demolition of more than 100 homes in Reading, Stoneham and Woburn. Additionally, Hamblin played an instrumental role in the merger between GBAR and the Eastern Middlesex Association of REALTORS® in 2016.

The Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® is a private trade association with more than 9,000 REALTOR® members who specialize in residential real estate in Eastern Massachusetts.  GBAR is the largest of five divisions of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB), and a local chapter of the Massachusetts and National Associations of REALTORS® (NAR).  REALTOR® is a federally-registered trademark reserved exclusively for members of NAR.

SOURCE Greater Boston Association of REALTORS(R)

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